Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-26

~ mas otien Teen said th1t somewhere IN
this world eve y pers N has his double.
Tho assertion is too LroaI for acceptance,
mt II Is certain that there are doubles,
aud that the close similarity b'tween peo-
plo has led 10 many grave complications.
II Is not yet ten yenTs ago that a man
name Hiram Weston. living in a small
town in Ontario, was hired v a tinsmith
e. drive ped llsr's wagon. lie made two
trips an stait,d on n third, but after no
Lad lecn gone two days the utfit was re-
turned ly farmer, who sail that II had
loen loft in his barn-ynrd at night. As
Weston was miss n :, search was at once
begun, and II was finally shown that he
had Teen seen in company with two
strangers at railway station, whore all
had trkcn the train for Buffalo. As the
tinsmi "a had lost nothing he did not care
TO follow the case up. IL was pretty gem
srnlfy known that Weston rnl his wife
sbF not live apreenl Nv. and although she
isisis Ell that he had met with foul play,
and wan, ed tho search continued, Il was
soon dropped on the idea that he had run
AMY om he-.
sAls day, i've M nths nflcr his ditnp-
pcHruuce, Weston ie urucd. lie was first
On ut tho depot b. three or four ci'i-
gers who had known him for ten years.
One OF these, a Mr.. Williams, ,aluted him
with;
wen, III, you aren't dead"
oh, no."
"Como back TO stayp
81 guess So"
(which way have you been?"
"Out West"
II was talking viii your wifo yo'ter-
day, md ibo said you had never write
line 90 hor."
Weston prinnel anil scratched his head,
IA made no reply. A Mr.. Do Mann then
Ruil;.
ave spent four weeks looking fer n case
Of n urder Next 'ime you are going TO
step out you'll Le.io.' let somo Of US know
st."
Yes, will" answered Weston, rs he
t'nrted up the street. 10 was afierward
remembered thas no acted like n strange
man In strange place. He inquired Of
10y about Lo;cls, end the lad directed
him 10 one. onl added:
III saw your boy Ere yesterday, AMI he
has got nm awful boil on his leg"
The landlord. OF tho hotel salu;el | i'm NJ
Iii Weston, as did some Of the guests, nnd
tso fact OF his engaging board was not
considered strange, though his wife lived
My mile away. Perhaps he di mt iu-
tend To- go lack TO her ut all, or perhaps he
wanted To get certain promises leioro be
III go back. lie entered tho town at ten
oolOsk IN tho forenoon, and u was eight
~ the evening when his sor Fred, n 10y Of
ten, and EIs daughter Il lith, girl OF
feven, called ht tho hotel 90 urge him 90
ctme home. They kissed him, called him
father, and he seemed glad 10 see them.
In the presencj OF the landlord he Lskcd
some questions about their mother which
seemed very range at the time, but were
ct once forgotten. lie nssed her age, how
many children she hal, how ling the
father hal cen gone, md what vocation
lie follow ell when at home. lie oil not
ask these questions direct, Tut yet in such
manner that satisfactory answers were
Ielurn ID, AMI in such n way as to cause
The landlord to remark:
'Why, Iii, one would think you had
forgotten your family and had lost your
sell"
"Ycs," he replied, rs he rose mp to go
OnA tho chillten, "but I've been gone
quite a spell, You know"
Mrs. Weston was neither smart nor m
~ uNuNtu WOulunt anu Huu lne reputation
az having n bitter tongue. Several people
fhllcwel Hiram home 10 e the fun, but
there was none. The vito met an kissed
I'm Mt the door an hal no reproaches.
After two or three days ho went 10 wo X
digging well for a citizen, and for the
next six months he labor vi very steadily
so much so that II WAS gener lily re-
mnrke I that Hiram WeS'on had changed
4 T. II
With his family, and his wifc's father,
oihur aud brothers were often at the
hou'e TO speak ~ his praise. At the end
"f nj out six months n vsry curious thing
occurrc :. Hiram Weston started Oft one
day with his dinner pail, having been
hired q repair a fence for a suburban
fnrmo. Al ten o'clock that morning
lli'nm Weston also cams in on the train
from Buffalo, and tire first thing when he
got or the cars no asked after his family.
-Why, ! saw you home last evening""
replied the Ci;izin who had been ques-
tione !.
''3ri have not been nearer home than
t1is for over eleven months"
lie was laughed at. He went straight
20 his hou g. aud IS he entered II his wife
asked:
whats tho matter; snl whore is your
iinrcr paity"
Now, scom u you will, Lu' lisa matter
efreeord ond 0lso OF newspaper puliica-
uontks thsre two Hiram WestonS. That
u. there we're two m N so exactly nike In
luild, height and general appearances that
even wifH anil children were deceived.
For n time Mrs. Weston believed the new
Somer io be the other Hiram returned from
~. l..
opened her eyes. He hal gone eft with a
couple Of sharpers, and in return Tor some
"work" done Ia Buffalo he had been sen,
To State pris n for year. lie was IN
prison when the other Weston camo IA
IOWA, and hal indeed had hecn discharged
ouly the day previous to his own arrival
IL may be stated here that oil his tllega.
lions wore found 10 DO true. He was idt n
Iified by the prison officials, anil there wa,
his dss, ription on the Looks. The drtec-
tive who arrested him On the JUICE who
sentenced him further lien tiBe him.
Who, then, was tho other Hiram wes-
tent Although lie left the houss with hi.
thinner pail 20 co to wcik he did not show
up at the place. aud las not since beer
heard from. Tue real one was fGundlins
from New York City. 10 was not i'm.
probable that lie bad n ~ in lrother, an
that the stranger was the ons. 10 wal
possible, too, that the stranger was not
related TO him, though his double. Why
Dee went away as hs did was further
mystery. for he C uld not have foreseeu
that any thing was TO happen. But fur
the evidences In lack and whio peopIe
would have believed him ghost.
lDry OiOO,.s N.lVniCic.l
An old mercantile authority SAYS that
honor Is violated when n man uses inform
alton conEdcntially intrusted 10 him Il
anticipate the informer. A man violates
the laws OF honor when he takes advan-